People's Stories

Ranamaya Katuwal aged 56 is a permanent resident of Sukoshi Rural Municipality-8 in
Okhaldhunga district. She did not have any source of income before 2012. Rana Maya
was completely dependent with her husband's and sons' income. She affiliated at
Samabeshi VLRF of her Tole in 2012 as a member. She participated every meeting
of VLRF and discussed about the problem of village. She was acquainted on the
problem of landless people and importance of agro-based enterprises through the
meeting.

"The
DLRF members came to our meeting one day and asked us if we were interested in
cond

Mahakaleshwori
women collective group has been established with a major objective of enhancing
and supporting women in improving their economic socio status level through
forming different sub groups as per their livelihood options. Here, these women
collective group has been supported Rs 4, 00,000 under the community led
reconstruction programme for strengthening such groups both economically and
socially.

Shivakumari
Pandit ,56 of Helambu rural municipality 7 is
a member of Mahakaleshwori women collective group. Pandit recalls "When I first started
vegetab

Ful maya lama , a resident of Helambu rural
municipality ward no 1 Thulodhunga is a symbol representing one of a typical
Nepali female who has to undergo different problems and struggles just to find
her identity. Like many thousands women of Nepal struggling each day after
being married have to struggle
community and society to find their identity and place. Ful Maya Lama in her 28
years of small life span has face so much problem and hindrance that a common
man would have not faced in his whole life, lama shares "Coming from a
poor family agriculture was our major source of income, as

My name is Buddhe Waiba Tamang and I
am originally from Tadi Rural Municipality ward number one of Nuwakot. Now I am
living in Tadi Rural Municipality, ward number 3, Budune with my family. My place
of origin has been all damaged by the earthquake. So almost after a year of
earthquake me along with my family moved here.

In my place of origin I use to work
as a porter in an trekking company and my family reared goats. My family had 5
ropani of land where we used to grow buckwheat, millet and wheat which was just
enough to feed my family for six months. Currently, I work as a

My name is Sapana Tamang and I am 30
years old. I am originally from Lapa. Before earthquake I was teacher in Shree
Phedi Khola Primary School.

After earthquake I along with my
family migrated to Damgade camp. My baby was just 15 days old when the
earthquake occurred. It was very difficult for a person like me I could neither
run nor walk like other people. After 15 days of earthquake we migrated to
Damgade. That is when I decided that I don’t want to live in such difficult
place.

Initially life was very much
difficult in a camp for a lactating woman like me. Aft

My name is Phusu Tamang and I am 60
years old. I am from Tenchet of Rubi Valley rural municipality ward number 5.
Just after the earthquake me and my family ( wife and a daughter) migrated in
Bhadraguan camp of Nilakantha municipality.

The land where we are living belongs
to the church. All of us living in this camp are Christian.

My major source of livelihood is to
prepare buckets from bamboo ( thunche, doko). Our market of selling the
products was Dhadingbesi. Before the earthquake we used to travel from our
village to Dhadingbesi to sell our produce. But n

My name is Raj Ghale and I am 59
years old. From past nine years I have lost my eyesight. In my family we are
husband wife and a daughter. My daughter is studying in Kathmandu and my wife
work as a labor. Our family is originally from Kispang Rural Municipality (Salme
VDC, ward number 8). At the time of earthquake I was all alone in my home. In radio I had heard that if earthquake comes
you should go down under the table or bed or door. So by remembering it I accordingly crawled
under my bed. I was rescued after few hours and after a week we migrated in
Simbutaar Nuwakot.